Job title: Akamai SME
Company: Virpie Tech
Job description: Job Description-As the SME, you will be involved in reviewing and implementing Akamai Bot Manager protections on our client’s Akamai Web Application firewall to identify, categorize and manage public crawlers, SEO engines and other automated scraping bots. A significant portion of Akamai traffic has been identified as bot traffic. You will be involved in integrating log forwarding of Akamai Edge traffic logs to our client’s ingestion infrastructure. By enabling log ingestion into existing Splunk log ingestion endpoints, significant insights, analysis of real-time traffic and sharing of log data to other groups within our client’s network. This will establish ingestion from the following additional data sources: Acquia, Akamai and build foundation for future state for ServiceNow, Pingdom, Box, and Microsoft Defender in Azure.Basic Qualification
- 3+ years of experience using Akamai Content Delivery Network (CDN) and/or Acquia Cloud (Drupal PaaS)
- Experience with networking, DNS, Certificate/PKI principles
- Experience reviewing currently configured alerts, define alarm policies, and update existing monitors
- Experience performing analysis of applications (also referred to as Akamai Properties) and their Akamai configuration, define baseline for configurations, review best practices with Akamai Technical Account Manager/Akamai Engineers and implement changes.
- Experience with Splunk, ServiceNow, Pingdom, Box, and Microsoft Defender in Azure
- Experience providing ongoing security support to maintain ingestion capabilities, continuously tune alerts and dashboards, and investigate cyber events alerted by Splunk
- Ability to analyze requirements, design, implement, and operate highly available and scalable firewall and network security solutions in cloud environments
- Ability to lead a team of engineers in the development of complex integrated solutions
- Ability to obtain a security clearance
- HS diploma or GED
Clearance: Clearable / Applicants selected will be subject to a security investigation and may need to meet eligibility requirements for access to classified informationRefer a friend and make up to $2000! Contact us for details.
Eligibility Requirements:
- Candidate MUST satisfy 80% of job requirements to submit resume. Candidates who are clearly unqualified (less than 60% skill match), or lacks legal work status will be rejected & reported.
- Any offer of employment is conditioned upon the successful completion of a background investigation, reference verification and drug screen.
- For U.S. employment opportunities we accept U.S. citizens and permanent resident applicants. Exceptions to these requirements will be determined based on candidate’s willingness for their visa to be sponsored by Virpie (if position permits). Virpie will require proof of work authorization.
- SORRY, NO CORPORATE TO CORPORATE (CORP. 2 CORP. / C2C) APPLICANTS will be considered for this position. Candidates must be willing to work on Virpie or client’s W2.
About Virpie Tech:
- A certified NMSDC minority-owned consulting firm since 1997, providing a complete range of staffing services to Fortune 500 companies nationwide across a broad spectrum of industries along with various Federal and State goverment agencies. Additional offices nationwide, UK, Dubai, and India.
- We consult with candidates to understand their personal goals before discussing technical skills and offer an opportunity to succeed. The enthusiasm our employees bring to work extends to their personal life, and we encourage a healthy balance of work and life.
- Virpie has won awards for Top 50 Diversity Business, Fortune 50 Company, Inc. 500 Fastest Growing Company, and Diversity Business Top 500 Business.
- Virpie is an Equal Opportunity Employer; welcoming diversity as a competitive advantage
- We honor our Veterans
- Charitable donations to our community in a new hire’s honor for permanent placements
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Location: McLean, VA
Job date: Fri, 24 May 2024 07:21:19 GMT
